Bilderberg Group elitists who are considering
Marco Rubio to become Mitt Romney's running mate were probably enamored
by Rubio's "foreign policy chops" during a Brookings Institution
speech yesterday in which the Florida Senator cemented his place as
a neo-con poster child by calling for a US-led military assault on Iran
and Syria.

Speaking of Iran, Rubio stated, "We
should also be preparing our allies, and the world, for the reality
that unfortunately, if all else fails, preventing a nuclear Iran may,
tragically, require a military solution."

He also said that Syria should become
a target for "American leadership," in the context of ignoring
UN mandates and sending in American troops to directly help rebel fighters
who, as
we have documented, are being directed by Al-Qaeda terrorists.

"You need the center of gravity
to instigate this coalition (supporting opposition groups in Syria)
and move forward with a defined plan," said Rubio. "In the
absence of American power and American influence and American leadership,
it's hard to do that."

Rubio's zeal for committing the United
States to yet more unaffordable and pointless wars is likely to get
him in the good books of the Bilderberg Group. It also went down well
with the Brookings Institution, an establishment think tank that openly
admits in its own memos that the "responsibility
to protect" humanitarian ruse is merely a
crude pretext for long-planned regime change in Syria.

The
Telegraph's Tim Stanley points out that Rubio is basically firming
up his spot as a poster child for neoconservatives who are petrified
at the fact that Ron Paul and Rand Paul have brought a large percentage
of the Republican Party back to its non-interventionist roots.

"It’s hard not to be troubled
by Rubio’s all-encompassing vision of American hegemony,"
he writes. "Especially if you’re not American. Another
quote: “What happens all over the world is our business. Every
aspect of [our] lives is directly impacted by global events. The security
of our cities is connected to the security of small hamlets in Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.”

"Apparently, if some goatherd in the mountains
of Afghanistan loses one of his flock to a landmine, the consequences
for Topeka, Kansas could be terrible. The absurdity of the theory
that literally every security problem in the world is a direct threat
to the United States is but one example of Rubio’s naïveté.
In his vision, America never makes mistakes and everyone loves it.
Small nations regard the US as their protector against bigger nations,
whose wickedness is irrational."

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During his speech, Rubio also took time
to praise the ridiculously contrived 'Kony 2012' fad, which as we vehemently
documented at the time was nothing less than an effort to grease
the skids for the U.S. military invasion of Africa.

"So Rubio is campaigning for the
vice president slot in the Republican Party by promising to embroil
our country in two major Middle East wars, and moreover to do so without
the backing of international law," writes
Juan Cole. "But this step is precisely the mistake George W.
Bush made in Iraq, and it meant that the US was mostly on its own in
fighting, dying and paying for that war. Syria is 2/3s the size of Iraq,
and Iran is 3 times more populous, so Rubio is committing us not only
to bear more thousands of war dead and badly wounded but also to spend
trillions in distant Middle Eastern deserts."

As
we reported earlier this month, a
story by veteran Washington Post columnist Al Kamen explained how
Rubio was looking to "boost his foreign-policy chops" by following
around the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to international
summits as a means of building his internationalist credibility.

Kamen more than subtly suggested that
Rubio could be a favorite of the Bilderberg Group, which he described
as "uber-secret global power brokers", a collection of financiers,
politicians, CEOs, academia and media bigwigs, who routinely have an
influence on the U.S. presidential election, picking
Barack Obama's VP in 2008 and John
Kerry's running mate in 2004.

Earlier this week, Rubio
hit the campaign trail with Romney, described by observers as appearing
like "a running mate audition," just days after making a Freudian
slip when he told a forum, “Three, four, five, six, seven years
from now, if I do a good job as vice president — I’m sorry,
as senator — I’ll have the chance to do all sorts of things.”

Bilderberg’s influence on U.S.
presidential elections is well documented. During the June 2008 Bilderberg
meeting in Northern Virginia, the press lost track of the whereabouts
of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Reports
subsequently suggested that the two had got together for a “private
meeting” in Northern Virginia, which almost certainly meant they
had both attended that year’s Bilderberg confab.